Author Archives: Chris

I generally count myself lucky as I do not receive a lot of spam email. I also use an email client with superb spam filtering features. However, over the past few days, I’ve gotton nearly identical emails from virtually the same place, and guess what? They’re all for spam filtering software. I checked into bothContinue reading “Oh, the Irony”

I live in Arlington, Virginia (USA), which is a pretty nice suburb of Washington, DC. I’d always wondered how they kept the county going with all of the services they provide, knowing how costly running a county is. Well, now I know. Apparently, Arlington County tricks unsuspecting motorists into paying an extra quarter for eachContinue reading “For convenience, $1.00 gives 1 hour”

Today, I was wading through a lot of old computer stuff that I have lying around, and I came across a LogiTech-branded Microsoft Windows 3.1 box, complete with 5.25″ and 3.5″ floppy disks. Wow. I did what any red-blooded, nostalgic computer dork would do: I installed it on a vmware instance. Here it is inContinue reading “Old Skool Software”

So, it seems like everybody and their brother has a Weblog these days. I used to think that people that blogged were either full of themselves or actually hadsomething important to say. Most bloggers fell into the category of "who cares". Now, I understand that blogging is the new way&trade of the web. I mean,Continue reading “Johnny Come Lately”